Alternative splicing of the NMDAR1 glutamate receptor subunit in human temporal lobe epilepsy

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 377-384

  Musshoff, Ulrich ^a   Schünke, Ulrike ^a   Köhling, Rüdiger ^a   Speckmann, Erwin Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Human brain; NMDA receptor; NMDAR1 subunit; Temporal lobe epilepsy

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; EXONS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOCORTEX; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034728677     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(00)00030-9     Document Type: Article

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